immune to it dozens of schools closed there, 20% of the district staff laid off. 304 million dollar deficit. how did it get to this point? >> as you can imagine it happens over time. recession had the impact and variety of cuts made from the state funding source, we tried to step up our game at the city level, the recession hit all of us hard. my hope the course of the next couple of days, we will have further action taken at the state level that would help to stabilize the innocence of tour schools and at the same time, we need to make some significant savings on the labor cost side, put all of that together. the city has given, the state will have given, citizens clearly given, i have raised taxes twice here in the last two years for our school children and then we need shared sacrifice with our labor community, the teachers and administrators and others. if everyone puts it in on behalf of the children, then we will be able to have a quality education for them when they come back in september. >> right. well, education secretary arne duncan certainly calling for the state to step in some